...of it ; most difficult lo obey the mandate of a sweet singer of our own time, when he bids USForget six counties overhung with smoke, Forget the snorting...bear Levantine staves Cut from the yew wood on the bumt-up hill, And pointed jars that Greek hands toiled to fill, And treasured scanty spice from some...

...midst of it ; most difficult to obey the mandate of a sweet singer of our own time, when he bids us — Forget six counties overhung with smoke, Forget the...; Think that below bridge the green lapping waves ijjtnite some few keels that bear Levantine staves ' Cut from the yew wood on the burnt-up hill, And...

...leisurely rumble of a market-cart intensified the sweet silence. It was, indeed, as Mr Morris says : London, small, and white, and clean ; The clear Thames bordered by its gardens green. You could hear the songs of the birds clear and thrilling in the streets ; and the citi2ens had the...

...of steam and machinery as being detrimental to the beauties of nature ; and, indeed, he would fain " Forget six counties overhung with smoke Forget the snorting steam and piston stroke. " As a poet, his fame rests chiefly upon a long and beautiful work entitled " The Earthly Paradise,"...

...leisurely rumble of a market-cart intensified the sweet silence. It was, indeed, as Mr Morris says : London, small, and white, and clean ; The clear Thames bordered by its gardens green. You could hear the songs of the birds clear and thrilling in the streets ; and the citizens had the...

...leisurely rumble of a market-cart intensified the sweet silence. It was, indeed, as Mr Morris says : London, small, and white, and clean ; The clear Thames bordered by its gardens green. You could hear the songs of the birds clear and thrilling in the streets ; and the citi2ens had the...

...us forget our most serious anxieties, but he tries to hide from us our too hideous surroundings : " Forget six counties overhung with smoke, Forget the...white, and clean, The clear Thames bordered by its garden green ; Think, that below the bridge green lapping waves Smite some few keels." While we are...

...leisurely rnmble of a market-cart intensified the sweet silence. It was, indeed, as Mr Morris says : London, small, and white, and clean ; The clear Thames bordered by its gardens green. Yon conld hear the songs of the birds clear and thrilling in the streets ; and the citisens had the...

...singer who bids us Forget six counties overhung with smoke, Forget the snorting steam and piston-stroke, Forget the spreading of the hideous town ; Think rather...— The clear Thames bordered by its gardens green. But, after all, he is not the highest poet who only bids us dream. The highest poet is he who, knowing...

...Paradise has as true an intuition as any when, in reference to the city in Chaucer's time, he bids us " Dream of London, small, and white, and clean ; The clear Thames bordered by its gardens green." The nuisance that gave most trouble in the medieval and Tudor periods was the blood and offal of the...